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IN Edinburgh, last week, Allison's I Transport (Contracts), Ltd., 119 Clepington Road, Dundee, appealed against the Scottish Deputy Licensing Authority's refusal to grant an A licence for 40 vehicles operated under C-hiring margins. As reported in The Commercial Motor on April 8, Mr. A. Robertson, the Deputy Authority, said that if he granted the licence, the whole licensing system would be endangered.
The Transport Tribunal reserved their decision after Mr. W. D. Conochie for the appellants, had submitted that, prima facie, Allison's had made out a case for additional facilities. On the evidence of various customers it seemed clear that the service they got from Allison's was satisfactory, and they wished to continue with them under A licences.
Under the 1933 Act, he said, these customers' requirements must be met. and by the operator already doing the work. Allison's were not taking traffic from anybody else. These customers were carrying their own goods and now wanted the haulage contractors with whom they associated to carry their goods.
Mr. Conochie thought the company should have vehicles at least to enable them to carry tonnage to the amount of £84,000 a year, or additional vehicles to deal with 50 per cent, of the sub-contracting work which they had to take on. Allison's also required vehicles to assist them in meeting the demands of their customers and to cover maintenance and major overhauls.
Mr. Alexander Thomson. for the respondents—the British Transport Commission—said that Allison's practice of operation would be almost bound to lead to breaches of law. "1 cannot point to any," he added, "but the situation might arise, if there were further inquiry, which would disclose a breach of the statute."
Mr. Thomson was referring to the fact that the C-hiring system enabled the customer to hire a vehicle, provided that his own driver drove it.
QUICK ROUTES IN LONDON THROUGH routes radiating from a 1 ring road encircling Central London are shown in a new map which Mobilgas service stations are selling at 6d. The officially recommended routes are delineated in yellow—the same colour as the signs on the roads.
The map covers an area of about 18 miles around London and includes a comprehensive index to districts. On the other side is a three-colour street plan of the central area, showing oneway streets and parking places. These maps are published by the Vacuum Oil Co., Ltd.
A DAY LATER
BECAUSE of August Bank Holiday, the next issue of The Commercial Motor will be published on Saturday, instead of Friday.